Watch Me: complexities and concepts, Arrival

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Seeing the trailer, and being an avid fan for anything science fiction like, I hardcore wanted to watch Arrival despite my feeling like it would be too serious for my sleepy uncertain ego. Discovering I was wrong was one of the best things I like about life, Arrival directed by Denis Villanueve and adapted by Eric Heisserer from a short story novella titled "Story of Your Life" written by Ted Chiang, made the experience worth while. 

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The movie starts with the vision and example of memory, and how our minds can fabricate them in mystery. Starting from there everything begins to unfurl as a series of alien crafts land on certain points of the world, no activity made only landed on key areas for each continent.

During the course, a linguist and physicist are both hired by the government to help them handle the alien situation through pacifistic means. Before everyone in the planet becomes nerved enough to be violent and turn the world upside down.

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Did I ever dream of wanting to see another "mankind against another extraterrestrial" kind of story in a movie before? Not really. Sometimes it becomes redundant with the turmoil, unabashed explosions and resounding chaos that sometimes you think how impossible the main characters can even survive such fancy violence around them.

That's why, to me, who rarely watches movies (these days, in this part of my life's time), everything is a breath of fresh air when I saw this movie.

Let's be honest, we all believe this movie wouldn't kick ass. But the reality and genuine emotions each countries reaction and management for this type of situation is semi-spot on, enough to actually hold fear in anyone's hearts.

To a person who believes handling a situation first must consider thinking, despite me being always emotional (I do my best, okay?), in a pacifistic manner before acting violently. Easy to say the appeal of the movie caters to my heart deeply.

There are no circumstances where it did not fascinate me on how the scenarios will play out. The timeline's progress might seem a bit quick, not as quick as normal alien-to-mankind type of movie I've encountered in majority, yet who would want to grab that ex-machina away from anyone's imagination and grasps. Being truthful, I gauged the progress to be more than the months in the story. Yet, it still felt satisfying not having it longer than a year.

Alien communication struggle was not a first for the concept of this movie. But playing it out only in the value of language or words plays communication with the third kind completely blatant and a good herald of how it should be done in the most imaginative way possible.

The uniqueness of the production and flow however was not the one that caught me off guard, but the twist in the plot. It was no lie that the opening quote from Amy Adams' character was in fact the really player in the story. Even though it was hell of confusing especially at the nearing conclusion of the movie.

Linking the story and each elements value, as much as I could really follow through, was a glorious feeling. Knowing that in the end that twist of information felt like you spoke to another born mystery of the world for people to enjoy and discover. Which could ultimately mean as an ex-machina to the ending of the story in regards to explaining the phenomena of her mental visions that helped pull her through the toughest of times.

Begging to experience such likened miracle, the same as what Amy Adams character experienced, feels like one for my bucket list. To witness an alien language, learn to understand it and ultimately experience it's gifts as positive the influence it has as it can give.

This movie is one up in the tier of a good jog of your brain in the park. Now on the emotional scale, relating to the wonder and tolerance they gave during the story is something many should learn. The movie can totally work as a peace video to remind man kind that violence isn't always the answer to every unknown thing.

Watch Me: teenie boppering The 5th Wave

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Out of curiosity, and being a weirdly loyal fan of Chloe Moretz, I tried watching one of her latest sci-fi themed movie entitled The 5th Wave directed by J.Blakeson from the same titled book written by Rick Yancey.

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Life was pretty much normal for Cassie Sullivans world, until a mysterious large hovering space craft the size of a continent became the dead ringer start of events unfolding into an apocalyptic battle between man and the alien race named as the Others.

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Believe me when I say this movie may have, like all the other nice movies out there, a good and curious universe that can very well establish a footing fit for a nice theatrical prowess, it is not unavoidably subject under a mainstream over used theme. Such as this very element of aliens being able to infest inside a human like a parasite, rendering their host under their very control, a.k.a. that Stephanie Meyer book the Host with the almost same type of alien.

This however is not the selling point of this movie, but the depicted experiences of Cassie and their eventual events into a future unknown under the invasion of the Others. Which to my opinion is pretty well composed, in terms of the flow of events fairly edited from the book into a feature film.

Might as very well clarify that it was very evident that the movie is a stepping stone opening for a long ass story, it's open ended conclusion after they saved Cassies sibling simply says "I'm supposed to have a continuation".

I've barely any knowledge of the book and how it's characters, events, and style of writing is unfurled. Basing from the movie, there are heavily built ex-machina scenarios edited from the original, and possibly characters intentionally omitted. Though, I am not a very critical person, and that to I simply enjoyed the flow. Disregarding the obvious romance tension happening between select characters, the action and adventure elements seems a good 8 out of 10 grade.

Simply put, this might be a B grade movie even to it's reader fan base. But I wouldn't mind seeing the sequel happen even if the movie itself isn't compelling, just out of curiosity on what will be happening next into the lives of the characters.

Over-all it might be better to just follow the books, own them and read to your hearts content; and treat the movie like a large fan base advertisement for it.

Watch Me: movie lising: Donnie Darko (2001)

There is nothing wrong with the concept of just clearly messing up time and space. Time travel, cross examination of existence between time lines, I guess making an effort to live life like so, discovering the definition of life changing and life ruining.

These days I find myself not enjoying any much content in any media for various 'I'm tired' reason. This prompted me to just embrace that too sensible or serious side and watch tons of physics and life questioning related movies. Psychological thrillers or just plain existentialism in movie platform are nice to watch, they pull strings that I couldn't feel sometimes. Or I feel it too much I've gone numb?

Last night I skipped working, just a bit, to finally watch Donnie Darko (2001) and a bit of Source Code (2011), since I was too sleepy the hour I watched the latter. Both are movies with Science-fiction concepts, Source Code with the stronger Scifi vibes, and both starred Jake Gyllenhaal, which I just realized when I started to watch Source Code. It wasn't intentional when I looked them up and went on and got a copy of the movies.

Donnie Darko has been in the list of my 'I'm highly curious' but 'I just couldn't get to you due to priorities are different' reasons of not watching it the moment I saw a tidbit info about it. There aren't much of a reaction for me on the movie since everything in it felt dream like, which they are. Fun was one word for the story, where in a sense the ending clearly concluded a good ending for the plights of Donnie who was clearly disturbed mayhaps for a semi-realistic or purely science fiction reasons.

Everyone in the world should try and watch Donnie with a sense and purpose of trying to look for easter eggs everywhere in the movie, at least still relating to the story, and never forgetting to set their empathy to a neutral level. Feelings flushed to me when I watched every part of it, shifting every relative sympathy and empathy for Donnie and the characters situation or flow of the story, wherever it lead. On the type of time and space fuck up it used was something I point out as sense of prediction, where everything was a linear end to a means but the ultimate decider still ended with Donnie.

At first you would get a bit confused why the story focused on several lives of characters that seemed insignificant during the course and even the moment they show up in the story, they are however significant in a sense that they formed what kind of Donnie would be by the end of the movie. This story clearly showed a good example of utilizing the characters around the main character, and the setting plot, to evolve them into what they can be. Almost all of them are praise worthy no matter how good or bad, a clear line of grey, their actions were. Except for Frank, who I didn't appreciate how strongly he was present in the whole of the movie, only to be truly introduced to be an almost third tier character related to Darko. His significance was the greatest yet he was the most irrelevant in terms of relation.

That itself makes me think that the person who wrote this story is that awesome, kudos Kelly.

The heaviness of the movie, due to all the psychological elements in it, tends to steer you completely away from the ending that was evident, a clear and obvious sign of Donnie's death or might be the end of his known world. The end can be interpreted in any way possible, but one thing was sure, it was the end for Donnie and him alone. Imagine being flooded by such thoughts at a young age clearly says something about the mentality of his character.

By the time you watch the climax of the movie you will be filled by assurance and hope that maybe Donnie could find a way to fight the inevitable. The end that he so feared, that, the fear he clearly felt drove him to almost endanger every single person important in his life. You can guess by this time that the end that was meant in the movie was his end, yet you question yourself whether he did choose to travel back in time or was it all truly in his head. Evident to the waking dreams of each character that made a grave distinction in his story, to the memorable up to the unpleasant ones.

Questioning the end, like the unconfirmed ending for Inception, is also another sign for me that the movie has truly caught your attention. Whether you get to have an answer for that won't matter, since the movie itself has already finished its purpose.

Telling a tale and making the viewer think for themselves of what is happening, to me, is a very captivating but taxing movie. You'd have to be a mental freak, or curious high mind; or a brain masochist, to enjoy one. Mind you, there is nothing wrong about that, it just means you'd rather have a high end mental entertainment in a level of which you'd rather not want to loose your mind in the course of enjoying everything. On the other, it's nice to get almost mindless and ignorantly stupid, site Angry Birds movie characters, which can also happen during the course in Donnie Darko.

There are that many elements emphasized to make you aware and even shallowly depressed, but it doesn't mean it won't pull you up. Life ups and downs are strongly evident in this story, and nothing short of the term roller coaster will truly miss a beat.

I feel like a child that missed out after watching this movie, now my inner child isn't missing out anymore, except I just need a different kind of outlet to make myself happier than the normal happy. The ignorant happy kind.